Author of “The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Civilizing Machine” Cornell UP 2022; University of Tampa; he/they
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At long last, my book "The Concrete Plateau" is going into print; you can order it and receive it by the end of the month. Save 30% with the code 09BCARD @CornellPress #academictwitter
Kyirong-Rasuwa is China's preferred route to connect Tibet to Nepal. By concentrating settlement along river valleys in an unstable geology and cryosphere, the logistical violence of the corridor leads to tragic death. My latest in Positions Politics.
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Digitally visiting Centro SELISI in Venice on 10/23 to give this talk. Open to all who register: Unstable Bordering: Chinese Development at Two Nepalese Border Sites.
Zoom (registration required):
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My new essay for @NBRnews that explores "peripheral communication" in China's external periphery.
Since 2015, a new concept has emerged in the PRC propaganda sphere: "peripheral communication" (周边传播).
For @NBRnews, @angrant_1 examines how this new propaganda theory purports to help China better penetrate the information space of its neighbors.
strategicspace.nbr.org/expan…
"Domestic economic corridors are positive spaces that erase the negative spaces of the frontier." Excited for this new article that looks at spatial planning, jokes about bandits, and China's understudied domestic corridors.
@RSA_TPG tinyurl.com/4cd3sruv
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Summer School opportunity for early career researchers working on border issues: "Testing Border Theories and Concepts Across Regions," Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2-6 June, 2025
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My new article is out in @RSA_TPG Closing the sub-frontier: corridorising Tibet and the social life of pervasive security // From a great new SI on Himalayan Frontiers // 50 eprints tandfonline.com/eprint/K6KTF…
Still looking for 1 or 2 abstracts for @theAAG Detroit 2025 panel on contemporary borders in Asia. Trying to pericenter China without "centering" China - if you catch my drift.
Wow, long day working on the AAS-in-Asia portal. Lots of fields to fill out. Looking forward to Kathmandu. Fingers crossed @AASAsianStudies @aasinasia #aasinasia2025
Any interest in AAS-in-Kathmandu (June 1-4, 2025) ? I am looking for 1 or 2 abstracts for a " contemporary transnational Asia" panel that looks at travel, labor, development, and other issues. The deadline is soon (Oct 31); needn't to be an AAS member.
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A top psychology journal retracts a flawed study by #Chinese scholars claiming #Tibetan children lack empathy. Funny, we invented empathy! The first word Tibetan kids learn is compassion, we even #meditate on cultivating it. rb.gy/o2lnh9
CFP for #AAG2025 in Detroit: "Understanding Asia’s Post-Pandemic Borders" Please send an abstract by October 25th. We are interested in any borders in East, Central, South, and Southeastern Asia...
Free eprints of my new article in Asian Ethnicity "Urbanization, relational space, and practicing Muslim ethnicity in Western China" tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97U…
We fled from #HurricaneMilton on Monday. Took 18 hours to do what would have been a 7.5 hour drive from StPete to Atlanta. 🙏 the damage isn’t catastrophic.
CFP AAG Detroit 2025: Understanding Asia's Post-Pandemic Borders
Please reach out to myself or Galen Murton by October 10th if you have interest in this session at the annual AAG conference in Detroit March 24-28th 2005.
The Dialogues in Human Geography Book Review Forum for Concrete Plateau is now fully online. Thanks so much to @juneandjune12, Max Woodworth, and Franck Billé for their insightful contributions, as well as to @anu_sabhlok and Galen Murton for organizing!
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Also note that selected contributors will be invited for a (funded) workshop.
Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 012 on Infrastructural Anxieties, edited by Mikel Venhovens and Mona Chettri: roadsides.net/call-for-paper…
Some wisdom from a website I made for an independent study with @GlobalHigherEd while studying abroad in St. Petersburg in 2005. Revisiting it as I prepare for lectures on Russia in my urban geography class.
